Chapters 9 and 10 Summary

Vilna Lutz's fever subsides, so he starts teaching Peter strategy again. When the subject of Adele comes up, Peter insists she's alive and Vilna Lutz insists she is dead. Vilna Lutz finally admits that the midwife took Peter's sister away because she too small for Vilna Lutz to care for. Peter vows to find his sister and never speak to Vilna Lutz again because he thinks he is a liar.

As Adele works with another orphan Lisette, Adele keeps thinking of the elephant's words from her dream—that he she's there to take the one they call Adele. When Adele tells Lisette she thinks the elephant is going to take her home, Lisette laughs at Adele. The beggar and the dog show up at the door but Lisette says they have nothing to give them.